Join Labour Behind the Label in a week of action from 30th May to 5th June to lobby brands to ban the technique of sandblasting denim
TAKE ACTION to ban 'killer jeans' Matilda Lee | 25th May 2011 Activism Society Health Waste & Recycling Denim Sandblasting Take Action Labour Behind The Label Garment Workers killerdenimpic.jpg Join …
A large-scale independent study by Health Canana finds no link between the noise from wind turbines and health, writes Tyler Hamilton. That's not to say wind turbines can't be annoying - but there's a sure way to deal with that: give locals a financial benefit from their operation. Has Britain's wind industry got something to learn?
Wind turbine noise may be annoying - but it's not making you sick Tyler Hamilton | 25th November 2014 Comment Health Wind Renewables Canada wind-turbines-ontario-cut.jpg A large-scale independent …
Endosulfan is the pesticide of choice for farmers in rural India trying to control insects threatening cashew nut and other crops - but the chemical can have devastating health impacts
Revealed: the child victims of pesticide poisoning in India Peter Caton Beatriz Lopez | 4th January 2012 News Health Pesticides India Food And Farming Endosulfan 360x480.jpg Endosulfan is the …
Mercury is the second most toxic metal in the world, and yet it's still being used to make fillings. Nick Kettles wonders if the dental establishment is away with the tooth fairies.
… insight into the future path that mercury investigations may follow.’ David Kennedy, of …
High levels of toxins mercury and cadmium have been found in all organs of the whales recently beached on Scotland's North Sea coast, including the brain. The research shows that rising mercury levels in the oceans leads to toxic stress in the long-lived marine mammals.
Heavy metal poisoning in Scotland's beached whales The Ecologist | 15th February 2016 News Oceans Cetaeans UK Scotland Pollution Toxics Health pilot-whale-cut.jpg High levels of toxins mercury and …
The forced retraction of a study that identified serious harm to rats fed on GMO maize and Monsanto's 'Roundup' reveals a deep and systemic corruption of science and regulation, writes Gilles-Eric Séralini. Urgent and far reaching reforms must now take place.
… of the data" was found in the investigation, that the results are "not …
Vocal school food campaigner Jackie Schneider on parent power, the importance of cooking from scratch and why free school meals would be the most cost-effective solution
Jackie Schneider: local authorities must protect children, not catering firms Laura Sevier | 23rd March 2010 Comment Food And Farming Health School Food Campaign Better Food For Schools Food For Life …
Research from China suggests that even low levels of nitrites in drinking water can cause cancer. Why is the West ignoring the evidence? asks Oliver Tickell
Cancer-supporting nitrites - an all-too-familiar story Oliver Tickell | 9th June 2008 Comment Water China Drinking Water Nitrates Cancer Food And Health Water Health Pollution nitrateslg.jpg Research …
Big Sugar is the new Big Tobacco, writes Alan Farago - lethal to human health, wreaking environmental devastation, gouging huge public subsidies, and with the political clout to stop First Lady Michelle Obama from breathing a word against it. Only an alliance of 'green', health and taxpayer campaigners can kill the beast.
Florida's sugar barons grow fat on subsidies, diabetes and Everglades destruction Alan Farago | 1st September 2014 News Health USA Water Natural World Pollution Politics neverglades-cut.jpg Big Sugar …
A new study finds that the Roundup herbicide disrupts the hormonal system of rats at low levels at which it's meant to produce no adverse effects. By the same mechanism It may be causing the potentially fatal condition of 'adrenal insufficiency' in humans.
Roundup may cause potentially fatal 'adrenal insufficiency' GMWatch The Ecologist | 21st August 2015 News Toxics Farming Corporations Science Health GMOs roundup-cut.jpg A new study finds that the …
The coal power station at Aberthaw is not just polluting much of South Wales with its filthy emissions. It could also be seriously damaging the health of children in Colombia with coal dust from BHP Billiton's massive Cerrejón coal mine. In this open letter, Luz Ángela Uriana Epiayu implores RWE npower to shut down its stinking, obsolete and illegal power station.
… and yet there has never been an independent investigation into the health impacts that the …
Despite wreaking havoc on the health of local villagers and the environment, Burma's military regime is doing nothing to reduce the impact of the Tigyit power plant and mine
… impacts of the country’s largest iron mine INVESTIGATION BURMA Or Myanmar, depending on …
In the 1960s psychologist Stanley Milgram tested a cross section of ordinary Americans to see if they’d administer potentially lethal electric shocks to a mild-mannered little man, sitting in an electric chair. The findings stunned the world.
Stanley Milgram's obedience experiment Tom Stafford | 1st June 2003 News Psychology Disobedience Dissent Americans Beha Mental Health Health Society FAIRTRADE_JUN03_MAIN_1.jpg In the 1960s …
Food industry spent €1 billion euros lobbying against proposals to help consumers make 'healthy meal' choices with a system of red, green and amber labels on the front of food packaging
… for its latitude - and we could exploit that INVESTIGATION Special Report Supermarkets: …
Research is the first attempt to quantify the higher cancer risk faced by men and women working in construction and doing shift work, but cancer charities say study is outdated
… errors' make use of these findings impossible INVESTIGATION What is the health impact of air …
Obesity is a problem that is chronic, stigmatised, costly to treat and rarely curable. Why? Because we are looking in the wrong places for a solution. Pat Thomas reports
… the culmination of many years of forensic investigation into the way that pollution is … problem and, as the results of a recent investigation in the International Journal Of …
Across, the pond, the news that one of the US's most iconic birds might be helping to spread the West Nile virus is about as welcome as suggesting Jesus was a communist
Who Was Killed By Cock Robin? Malcolm Tait | 25th November 2008 Comment US Disease Contagious Disease Birds US Risk Natural World Health blogs&comments.jpg Across, the pond, the news that one of the …
Al available science indicates that badgers have little if anything to do with bovine TB in cattle, writes Lesley Docksey. This is reflected in Wales's consultation on its 'refreshed TB Eradication Programme'. We must hope that Northern Ireland's bTB Eradication Strategy will be equally science based - and ready to campaign hard if it relies on cruel, ineffective and expensive badger culls.
Badger cull free TB eradication in Wales and Northern Ireland? The science demands it! Lesley Docksey | 6th December 2016 News Badgers Science Health UK Northern Ireland Wales farmyard-cut.jpg Al …
Forty years ago Monsanto carried out detailed studies of glyphosate and Roundup toxicity, write Richard Gale & Gary Null. But they have remained buried in filing cabinets ever since. Now a determined scientist has breached the wall of secrecy - and all the evidence is that Monsanto knew just how toxic its products were all along, while claiming they were 'safe as lemonade'.
Monsanto knew all along! Secret studies reveal the truth of Roundup toxicity Richard Gale Gary Null Progressive Radio Network | 18th September 2015 News Health Toxics Corporations Science Regulation …
Chemicals found in plastics, cosmetics and industry may be altering cells in our bodies, making us more likely to get fat and develop diabetes. Tom Levitt reports
… with the development of diabetes and obesity INVESTIGATION The Big Fat Fix Obesity is a …
Bats serve as a natural reservoir for the Ebola - but we cannot blame them for the epidemic. In Ghana alone people eat over 100,000 fruit bats a year as 'bushmeat', yet the country has escaped the epidemic. Much more research is needed to discover the mechanisms of transmission, and to devise effective, appropriate interventions.
… was essentially unknown until we began our investigation five years ago. In two recent …